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Word: patrons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August 1949, the report continued, Publisher Frank Gannett and the Bank of Manhattan had kindly lent Hanley the $28,500 which he needed to pay up the debt in full. But when he knuckled down to Dewey, his patron and another anti-Dewey Republican, Congressman W. Kingsland Macy, were not pleased. It was then that Hanley wrote Macy The Letter, a lugubrious note of apology and explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Postscript | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Several of the exhibits were portraits of shrewd Patron Vollard himself, who was a willing model for his many artist friends. Hearing that Renoir had always wanted to paint a bullfighter, Vollard had a gold-embroidered toreador suit made to his own measure, turned up at Renoir's studio in costume. He even offered to shave off his beard, but Renoir said that would be unnecessary: "You don't suppose you would be taken for a real torero, if you did? All I ask of you is not to go to sleep while you are sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bell Ringer | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Critic. In Bogota, Colombia, a disgruntled movie patron set fire to the curtains on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...kind of turnabout of his 1938 invasion of Carnegie Hall, he does a classical disc-jockey program for Manhattan's WNEW. Having tucked away some of his heyday earnings, Benny has also become a patron of long-haired composers. Early this month, playing with the NBC Symphony, he gave the first performance of the new Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra that he commissioned from Aaron Copland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Different Era | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...groom runs a grocery store on Main Street and is a steady patron of our advertising columns. He has a good line of bargains this week. All summer he paid two cents more for butter than any other store in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Booby Trap | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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